Typhoon Haishen: Storm makes landfall in South Korea after battering Japanese islands - Sky News

A typhoon has made landfall in South Korea after causing destruction in southern Japanese islands, where four people are currently missing.

The storm reached Ulsan, just north of Busan, South Korea's second-largest city, on Monday.

It had sustained winds of up to 89mph, but the Korea Meterological Administration (KMA) has said it has since weakened, with maximum winds now reaching 67mph.

Image: Four people have gone missing after a landslide on Kyushu

Image: South Korea saw the typhoon cause significant damage

Forecasters expect the typhoon to be downgraded to a tropical storm in the next 12 hours.

South Korea has seen significant disruption to travel as roads were flooded, some train services were suspended and more than 300 flights across 10 different airports were cancelled.

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Power cuts in thousands of households have also been reported, including in the resort island of Jeju.

Typhoon Haishen triggered a landslide on the southern Japanese island, Kyushu, with four people reported missing, according to officials.

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It is reported that a further 37 people sustained injuries in this region of Japan.

Japanese media has reported significant damage caused to buildings, flooded roads, and power blackouts in nearly half a million households.

In western Japan, many factories, schools and businesses have closed due to the storm, with hundreds of flights and train services also being cancelled.

Image: Travel was disrupted due to major flooding on roads

Around eight million people in Japan were asked to evacuate their homes in the path of the storm, with thousands also evacuating in South Korea.

This is the second storm taking a similar route through southern Japan and South Korea seen in less than two weeks, and the tenth in the season.

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Last week, Typhoon Maysak left dozens with injuries and caused damage to a number of buildings.

It also caused a livestock cargo ship, carrying nearly 6,000 cattle and 43 crew members, to capsize and sink.

Two sailors were rescued, and one body was recovered, but search operations have been suspended due to the current storm.

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Hong Kong protests: Police tackle 12-year-old girl to the ground - BBC News

Hong Kong police have come under fire after footage of officers tackling a 12-year-old girl to the ground near a pro-democracy protest went viral.

Police say the girl took part in an illegal gathering and officers used "minimum force" after she "ran away in a suspicious manner".

The girl's family say she was simply out to buy school supplies and became scared when confronted by police.

Nearly 300 people were arrested at Sunday's unauthorised demonstration.

The protests were over the government's decision to postpone elections to Hong Kong's parliament by a year. The government said this was necessary amid the coronavirus pandemic, but activists said the government was using the outbreak as a pretext to stop people from voting.

• Clashes and arrests in Hong Kong over delayed poll

What does the video show?

The video, from Sunday afternoon, shows two police officers approaching a young girl in the Mong Kok area and telling her to stand still.

The girl starts running - and one officer taps her with his baton while another runs towards her and tackles her to the ground.

More riot police emerge, holding the girl and her brother, who had tried to help her, on the ground. Other officers tell journalists and bystanders - many of whom appear outraged at the police action - to stand back.

Local media say the girl and her older brother were later treated in hospital for light injuries. Police issued them and a passer-by with penalty tickets for violating social distancing rules that prohibit gatherings of more than two people.

What is the girl's version of events?

The girl, whom local media are only identifying as "Pamela" to protect her identity, said she lived nearby and was out to buy art supplies for school.

"The streets were cut off by police cordons so we had to double back to meet our family... but the police suddenly ran towards us. I was scared. They told us to stand still, but I panicked so I ran," she told i-Cable news.

Her brother added that they both intended to contest the fine they had been given for breaching social distancing rules.

"We were just walking by, so there was no reason for the police to come after us," he said.

Their mother said she had been out buying groceries with them but went home while they went to look for art supplies. She said she was angry at how they had been treated by police.

What do Hong Kong police say?

In a statement, police said they had been intercepting protesters in Mong Kok who had refused to disperse following warnings to leave.

Police said officers had wanted to "stop and search" the girl, but "she suddenly ran away in a suspicious manner. Officers therefore chased and subdued her with use of minimum necessary force".

Following an investigation, they determined that "she and other protesters at the scene were participating in a prohibited group gathering" and breaching coronavirus regulations, so they were given penalty tickets.

The police added that they were "concerned about youngsters participating in prohibited group" gatherings that could endanger "their own personal safety", and that they hoped young people would "stay away from high-risk protests and avoid putting themselves in danger".

Why are things so tense between protesters and the police?

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Hong Kong saw months of anti-government protests in 2019. The demonstrations were initially about a proposed law that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China - however, the government's response was criticised and police were accused of responding to protests in a heavy-handed manner.

The protests, which involved a large number of young activists, soon evolved into a wider pro-democracy movement that also demanded an investigation into alleged police brutality.

Several high-profile incidents, including an alleged triad attack on protesters that police were slow to respond to, and violent clashes between protesters and police, led to relations deteriorating further.

Thousands of people, including students and children aged between 12 and 15, have been arrested in connection with anti-government protests.

One opinion poll suggests that Hong Kongers' approval of the police dropped from 66.9% in 2017 to 36.8% in 2020.

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Covid: Australia hopes to roll out almost 85 million vaccine doses - BBC News

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Australia says it will secure almost 85 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine if two promising trials prove successful.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the country had struck two deals that would allow free doses to be rolled out in 2021 if they were approved for use.

Mr Morrison estimated the cost to be A$1.7bn (£0.9bn; $1.24bn).

Australia's 25 million people could begin receiving doses from January but there were "no guarantees", he said.

"However the agreement puts Australia at the top of the queue, if our medical experts give the vaccines the green light," the prime minister said.

One vaccine is from Oxford University and pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, while the other is a local one from the University of Queensland and CSL. Both would most likely require people to take two doses.

• UK signs deal for 60 million virus vaccine doses
• How close to developing a vaccine are we?

Australia has recorded more than 26,000 coronavirus cases and 769 deaths, most in the past two months after an outbreak in Victoria.

The state announced on Sunday it was extending its strict lockdown for another two weeks, before gradually easing restrictions.

Under the plan, people in Melbourne will not be able to visit other households for group gatherings until at least late November.

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Most of the vaccines would be manufactured in Australia at biotechnology company CSL, the government said.

The nation has agreements for 33.8 million doses of the Oxford vaccine and 51 million doses of a UQ vaccine.

Early access to the Oxford vaccine - if it is found to work - could begin in January and February with 3.8 million imported doses secured for that period.

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That vaccine is in phase three of clinical trials and is being tested on 30,000 people, making it one of the world's most advanced. Australia announced last month it had secured access to the vaccine.

The UQ/CSL vaccine is in phase one of clinical trials, involving tests on a small control group.

The Australian government has said that immunisation won't be compulsory but strongly encouraged. The nation is aiming for a 95% vaccination rate.

Mr Morrison said Australia also remained committed to ensure vaccine access for its neighbours in the Pacific and South East Asia.

Additional orders may be donated or sold at their original price to other nations or organisations, officials said.

Countries around the world have been scrambling to arrange deals for potential vaccines, prompting concerns that poorer nations may miss out.

In July, the World Health Organization said 165 countries had signed up to a fund which would see wealthier nations help poorer nations with access.

About 140 potential vaccines globally are in early development, and dozens are being tested on people in clinical trials.

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Coronavirus: India overtakes Brazil in Covid-19 cases - BBC News

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India has recorded more than 90,000 new cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, taking its total above that of Brazil.

The country now has the second-largest number of confirmed cases in the world, 4,204,613. It has reported 71,642 deaths, the third-highest in the world.

The surge in reported infections has mostly come from five states.

The rise comes as the government continues to lift restrictions to try to boost an economy that lost millions of jobs when the virus hit in March.

For the last seven days India's caseload has galloped, adding more than 75,000 daily infections per day.

More than 60% of the active cases are coming from the states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state.

Cases have also begun spiking in the capital, Delhi, as well, with more than 2,700 infections recorded on Thursday, the city's highest in more than two months.

An upsurge of Covid-19 in many rural areas has also led to an uptick in numbers.

The virus has struck a remote tribe in India's Andamans islands, with 10 members of the Greater Andamanese testing positive over the past month.

The rise in cases is also partly a reflection of increased testing - the number of daily tests conducted across the country has risen to more than a million.

Although India has a low death rate from the disease, nearly 1,000 deaths have been recorded every day from across the country for the last seven days.

In early August India became the third country in the world to pass two million cases.

India went into a stringent lockdown in March in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus, whose numbers were only in the hundreds then.

It began to ease out of it in phases in June to promote economic activity, even as cases continued to spike.

The pandemic and the lockdown caused massive disruptions to economic activity during the quarter.

India's economy shrank by 23.9% in the three months to the end of June, the worst slump since the country started releasing quarterly data in 1996.

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Kamala Harris warns of Russian interference handing Trump victory - Financial Times

Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris warned Russian election interference could hand Donald Trump, president, another four years in the White House.

In an interview with CNN’s State of the Union, Ms Harris said she believed Moscow would attempt to interfere in the 2020 presidential election in the same way that US intelligence agencies say it did in 2016.

“I am clear that Russia interfered in the election of president of the United States in 2016. I serve on the Senate Intelligence Committee,” Ms Harris told CNN.

“We have published detailed reports about exactly what we believe happened. And I do believe that there will be foreign interference in the 2020 election, and that Russia will be at the front of the line.”

Pressed to answer if Russian interference could cause the Democratic ticket to lose the election, Ms Harris responded: “Theoretically, of course, yes.”

The Democratic vice-presidential nominee alleged Mr Trump’s frequent attacks on the electoral system as rigged and rife with fraud could also impede a fair result.

“We have a president who is trying to convince the American people not to believe in the integrity of our election system and compromise their belief that their vote will actually count. There will be many obstacles that people are intentionally placing in front of Americans’ ability to vote,” she said.

Trump administration officials say they are most worried about US election interference in 2020 on the part of China — which they say favours Mr Biden — not Russia.

“We know the Chinese have taken the most active role,” Robert O’Brien, Mr Trump’s national security adviser, told reporters on Friday. Mr O’Brien added that Beijing had “the most massive programme to influence the United States politically”, followed by Tehran and then Moscow.

William Barr, the attorney-general, has also asserted that China poses a bigger threat to US election security than Russia.

A report released by the director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center in August found Russia was using “a range of measures” to hurt Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, while China was considering taking more active measures to hurt Mr Trump. The report did not publicly classify Beijing as the bigger threat.

Ms Harris also accused Mr Trump of trying to rush out a coronavirus vaccine ahead of the November election for political purposes.

As the two presidential campaigns head into the final post-Labor Day election sprint, Mr Biden and Ms Harris have been attempting to turn the conversation back to Mr Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

In her TV interview, Ms Harris accused Mr Trump of misleading the public about the virus and its effects.

“I think that we have learnt since this pandemic started, but really before that, that there’s very little that we can trust that comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth. From the beginning of this pandemic, he has called it a hoax. He has muzzled the public health experts. He has minimised the seriousness of it. He has created false expectations for the American people and American families,” Ms Harris said.

She said she would not trust the president if he told the American people to take the vaccine.

“It would have to be a credible source of information that talks about the efficacy and the reliability of whatever he’s talking about. I will not take his word for it. He wants us to inject bleach,” she said, referring to Mr Trump’s comments earlier this spring at a press briefing when he suggested that injecting people with disinfectant might kill the virus.

Dr Scott Gottlieb, a former US Food and Drug Administration commissioner, on Sunday said the likelihood of a vaccine for widespread use this year was “extremely low”.

“I don’t think politics should get in the way at all. And I don’t think it will,” he said on CBS’ Face the Nation.

Dr Gottlieb warned the virus could spread aggressively in the autumn and winter in the US.

“Typically in the summer you see viruses spread that are spread through food, things that are ingested. In the wintertime, you see respiratory pathogens spread more aggressively, in part because people are indoors more.”

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Security forces blockade Minsk city centre as more than 100,000 demonstrators march on palace - Daily Mail

Army and security forces blockade Minsk city centre as more than 100,000 demonstrators march on Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko's palace demanding he quit over 'rigged' election victory

• Mr Lukashenko, 66, has ruled the country since 1994 and won his sixth term with 80% support in August 
• Protesters marched to Palace of Independence, the president's working residence, two miles outside Minsk
• The palace grounds were blocked off by riot police armed with shields and water cannons 

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Published: 19:23 BST, 6 September 2020 | Updated: 21:14 BST, 6 September 2020

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The army and security forces have blockaded Minsk city centre as more than 100,000 demonstrators demand the Belarusian President quit over 'rigged' election victory.  

Protests against President Alexander Lukashenko entered their fifth week as tens of thousands of demonstrators marched to the outskirts of his presidential residence in the capital.  

Protests calling for the country's authoritarian leader to resign also took place in major cities throughout Belarus, said Interior Ministry spokeswoman Olga Chemodanova.

More than 100,000 demonstrators took to the streets in Minsk, Belarus, to demand the President quit over 'rigged' election victory 

The army and security forces have blockaded Minsk city centre as protesters marched to the presidential residence

Protests against President Alexander Lukashenko, pictured, entered their fifth week

Demonstrators place flowers in barbed wire as they protested against the presidential vote they say was rigged

The protests, unprecedented in Belarus for their size and duration, began after the August 9 presidential vote

Crowd sizes for those protests were not immediately reported, but Ales Bialiatski, head of the Viasna human rights organisation, said the demonstration in Minsk attracted more than 100,000 people.

The protests, unprecedented in Belarus for their size and duration, began after the August 9 presidential vote that election officials said gave Mr Lukashenko a sixth term in office with 80% support.

Protesters say the results were rigged. Mr Lukashenko, 66, has ruled the country with an iron fist since 1994, regularly repressing dissent and press freedom.

Police cracked down on demonstrators in the first days of the protests, and reportedly arrested some 7,000 people.

Police cracked down on demonstrators in the first days of the protests, arresting some 7,000 people

Protesters marched towards Mr Lukashenko's residence which is three kilometres outside Minsk 

 Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched during an opposition rally calling for the President to resign 

A protester stands in front of barbed wire wearing a poncho to keep dry from the rain during the demonstration

Although they have scaled back, detentions continue and it was reported scores of people were arrested in Minsk and in the city of Grodno, in western Belarus, on Sunday.

Police and army troops blocked off the centre of Minsk on Sunday, but demonstrators marched to the outskirts of the Palace of Independence, the president's working residence three kilometres (two miles) outside the city centre.

The palace grounds were blocked off by riot police armed with shields and water cannons.

Maria Kolesnikova, a leader of the Co-ordination Council set up by the opposition to try to arrange a dialogue with Mr Lukashenko about a transition of power, said: 'This sea of people cannot be stopped by military equipment, water cannons, propaganda and arrests.

A woman holds a sign with a caricature of Mr Lukashenko during the rally 

Demonstrators stand in front of the police blockade waving an old Belarusian national flag and a LGBT rainbow flag 

A protestor wears a mask with the colours of the national flag at the rally to reject the election results 

The palace grounds were blocked off by riot police armed with shields and water cannons 

'Most Belarusians want a peaceful change of power and we will not get tired of demanding this.'

Mr Lukashenko has rejected any discussion with the council, and some of its top members have been jailed.

One of them, Olga Kovalova, was expelled from the country over the weekend, driven to Poland by police.

Despite the stalemate between Mr Lukashenko and the opposition, protesters in the Eastern European nation with a population of 9.5 million, say they will not tire.  

Authorities have also revoked the accreditation of many Belarusian journalists and deported some foreign journalists, including two Moscow-based Associated Press journalists. 

Riot police holding shields stand behind barbed wire and block off access to the Independent Palace 

A man waves a wooden rifle as opposition supporters gather in front of the police line

Demonstrators draped in flags gather during the rally against the results of the recent election 

Protesters gather outside the residence of Mr Lukashenko during the peaceful protest 

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